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    <center>Scilab Function</center>
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      <b>cond</b> -  condition number</p>
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        <tt>cond(X)  </tt>
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        <tt>
          <b>X</b>
        </tt>: real or complex square matrix</li>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    Condition number in 2-norm.  <tt>
        <b>cond(X)</b>
      </tt> is the  ratio  of  the
    largest singular value of  <tt>
        <b>X</b>
      </tt>  to the smallest.</p>
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A=testmatrix('hilb',6);
cond(A)
 
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      <a href="rcond.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>rcond</b>
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      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="svd.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>svd</b>
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      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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